I think I've reached the nadir of my adult life. While my stay in the loony bin a few months ago did help me feel better about myself, the effect has worn off in a big way.

I have about twenty dollars to my name. I sold just about every form of entertainment (DVDs, comic books, etc.) I had long ago. All the money I do get, which is about $150 a month (from my parents), is used to pay for therapy, psychotherapy, meds, and a small amount of…

This writeup is in part a response to Dennis Lehane by Bitriot. Because while I love his writing very much he could not be more wrong.

"Such, in brief, was the physical and mental nature of the third human species. In spite of innumerable distractions, the spirit of the Third Men kept on returning to follow up the thread through a thousand variegated cultures. Again and again folk after folk would clamber out of savagery

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It doesn't take much to make me smile

I found this today- mostly by accident.
This is from a site called:

http://www.howtoteachkids.info/

It is a short lesson on teaching kids to write their own sentences.

Pick one idea that is not a complete sentence such as "pretty and red."
Explain that a sentence is about someone or something. Ask, "What is it that is 'pretty and red?' Our sentence has to tell us."

This winter's afternoon, I sit
here in my third-floor, lacquer-washed
little glass box.

The boss is away, and there is
just enough work, if I forget
the filing, to fill
half
the time until five.

(I find, somehow, that I can
always forget the filing.)

And so, I write.

When I'm done, I will take
these shaped-and-crafted,
thoughtful words,
and print them…